2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in Maryland

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies is the 120th most popular major in the country with 8,442 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maryland, there were 20 general multi-/interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 general multi-/interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,371 and $23,982 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general multi-/interdisciplinary studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general multi-/interdisciplinary studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in Maryland

#1

Towson University

Towson, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$18,233 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Towson University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland list. Towson, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s individualized major degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

Towson also made our “Best General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Towson is $18,233 for Maryland Bachelor’s Degree Individualized Major students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies at Towson

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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